· Private foundation
Cambridge Kiwanis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Guernsey County | $18,000 |
| Cambridge Kiwanis Club - Block Grant | $10,000 |
| Lifewise Academy Guernsey | $10,000 |
| Buckeye Trail Band Boosters | $8,221 |
| Old Washington Volunteer Fire Dept | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Muskingum University Music Theatre Camp | $3,900 |
| Cambridge YMCA | $2,500 |
| Ohio Arts & Crafts Foundation | $1,500 |
| First Christian Church | $1,500 |
| Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center | $1,240 |
| Hospice of Guernsey | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LIVING WORD OUTDOOR DRAMA INC4× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
- YSYOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FUNDING FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +26%
- DVDICKENS VICTORIAN VILLAGE OF CAMBRIDGE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- LWLIVING WORDone grant, 2022 · $27k
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GHGUERNSEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $22k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
To increase awareness of amish and anabaptist history through the collection, preservation, and presentation of items relating to amish, mennonite, and anabaptist history, with a special focus on the amish settlement in geauga county and…
Historic preservation of the Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Gardens.
We are a museum of the history of the Firelands and early settlers during the 1800s in Lyme Township near Bellevue, OH.
The organization's primary purpose is to provide an atmosphere in which young men and women are able to escape the troubles and pressures of this world and focus on their relationship with god.
Compassionate end of life care assuring dignity for body, mind, and spirit.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Gateway House provides safe, affordable housing for men in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction
Church affiliated bible camp teaching children about the bible. provide lodging and food for weekly summer camps and year-round weekend retreat programs.
Crisis pregnancy counseling and support services
Judson care center's mission, as a charitable, christian organization, is to use its resources to meet the housing, health care, social, physical and spiritual needs of its constituents without regards to race, color, creed, national…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF GUERNSEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING WORD OUTDOOR DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Cambridge Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FUNDING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO ARTS AND CRAFTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKENS VICTORIAN VILLAGE OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Center ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds GUERNSEY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds National Cambridge Collectors Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Peoples Bank Foundation · United Way of Guernsey and Noble Counties Inc · Columbus Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cambridge Kiwanis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cambridge Kiwanis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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